Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance,structure,behavior,and decision-making of an economy as a whole. This includes regional,national,and global economies. Macroeconomists study topics such as output/GDP and national income,unemployment,price indices and inflation,consumption,saving,investment,energy,international trade,and international finance.
Articles in economics journals are usually classified according to JEL classification codes,which derive from the Journal of Economic Literature. The JEL is published quarterly by the American Economic Association (AEA) and contains survey articles and information on recently published books and dissertations. The AEA maintains EconLit,a searchable data base of citations for articles,books,reviews,dissertations,and working papers classified by JEL codes for the years from 1969. A recent addition to EconLit is indexing of economics journal articles from 1886 to 1968 parallel to the print series Index of Economic Articles.
The IZA –Institute of Labor Economics,until 2016 referred to as the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),is a private,independent economic research institute and academic network focused on the analysis of global labor markets and headquartered in Bonn,Germany.
Employment protection legislation (EPL) includes all types of employment protection measures,whether grounded primarily in legislation,court rulings,collectively bargained conditions of employment,or customary practice. The term is common among circles of economists. Employment protection refers both to regulations concerning hiring and firing.
Maurice Kugler is a Colombian American economist born in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 2000,as well as an M.Sc. (Econ) and a B.Sc. (Econ) both from the London School of Economics. Kugler is professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Prior to this,he worked as a consultant for the World Bank,where he was senior economist before (2010-2012). Most recently he was principal research scientist and managing director at IMPAQ International.
Joshua David Angrist is an Israeli–American economist and Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist,together with Guido Imbens,was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021 "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships".
The Rehn–Meidner model is an economic and wage policy model developed in 1951 by two economists at the research department of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO),Gösta Rehn and Rudolf Meidner. The four main goals to be achieved were:
William Edward Spriggs was an American economist who was a professor of economics at Howard University,chief economist for the AFL-CIO,and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
Lars Calmfors,born on July 12,1948,in Stockholm is a Swedish economist and professor emeritus in international economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He has been active there since 1974. He is a researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics,IFN,since 2015.
Harry Joseph Holzer is an American economist,educator and public policy analyst.
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University,. She also works regularly as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank,the World Bank,and the United Nations. She has authored numerous journal articles in economics and has written two books. From 2018 to 2024 she served as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers,and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2013 to 2014.
The Center for Distributive,Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) is a research center specialising in distribution,labor and social issues in Latin America.
Katharine G. Abraham is an American economist who is a Distinguished University Professor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993–2001 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011–2013. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and,in 2024,was elected to be the President-Elect and then the President of the American Economic Association.
Clair Brown is an American economist who is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work,Technology,and Society at the University of California,Berkeley. Brown is a past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. Brown has published research on many aspects of how economies function,including high-tech industries,development engineering,the standard of living,wage determination,poverty,and unemployment.
Michael R. Strain is an American economist. He is currently the Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also Professor of Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University,a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics,and a columnist for Project Syndicate. Strain's research focuses on labor economics,macroeconomics,public finance,and social policy.
Jan C. van Ours is a Dutch economist and currently Professor of Applied Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). He belongs to the most highly cited economists in the Netherlands and is the 1996 winner of the Hicks-Tinbergen Award.
Lucia Smith Foster is the Chief of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) and the Chief Economist at the U.S Census Bureau in Washington,D.C.
Susan N. Houseman is an American economist who is the vice president and director of research at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. She is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research on Income and Wealth,chairs the Technical Advisory Committee of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,and co-directs the Labor Statistics Program at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007.
Marcela X. Escobari is a Bolivian-American government official and diplomat who serving as an immigration advisor in the National Security Council. Prior to her NSC position she served as the Assistant Administrator of the Latin American and Caribbean Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from January 2022 to April 2024. She previously worked as a Senior Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington,D.C.,where she led the Workforce of the Future initiative.
